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| December 8th, 2065 (December 08 2065) | Birth | Horace, Roman poet (died in 8 BC) | Horace Quotes |
| December 8th, 2005 (December 08 2005) | Event | Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Americas, Tenerife by the Spanish police. | |
| December 8th, 2005 (December 08 2005) | Death | Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (born in 1915) | |
| December 8th, 1985 (December 08 1985) | Birth | Dwight Howard, American basketball player | |
| December 8th, 1975 (December 08 1975) | Birth | Kevin Harvick, American NASCAR driver | |
| December 8th, 1975 (December 08 1975) | Death | Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep) (born in 1948) | |
| December 8th, 1965 (December 08 1965) | Birth | Carina Lau, Hong Kong actress | |
| December 8th, 1945 (December 08 1945) | Birth | John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist | |
| December 8th, 1935 (December 08 1935) | Event | The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect s operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi. | |
| December 8th, 1935 (December 08 1935) | Birth | Dharmendra, Indian actor | |
| December 8th, 1935 (December 08 1935) | Birth | Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player | |
| December 8th, 1925 (December 08 1925) | Birth | Sammy Davis Jr., American actor and singer (died in 1990) | |
| December 8th, 1925 (December 08 1925) | Birth | Carmen Martin Gaite, Spanish author (died in 2000) | |
| December 8th, 1925 (December 08 1925) | Birth | Jimmy Smith, American jazz organist (died in 2005) | |
| December 8th, 1915 (December 08 1915) | Birth | Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (died in 2005) | |
| December 8th, 1885 (December 08 1885) | Death | William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (born in 1821) | |
| December 8th, 1865 (December 08 1865) | Birth | Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (died in 1963) | |
| December 8th, 1865 (December 08 1865) | Birth | Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (died in 1957) | Jean Sibelius Quotes |
| December 8th, 1815 (December 08 1815) | Birth | Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (died in 1905) | |
| December 8th, 1795 (December 08 1795) | Birth | Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (died in 1874) | |
| December 8th, 1765 (December 08 1765) | Birth | Eli Whitney, American inventor (died in 1825) | |
| December 8th, 1745 (December 08 1745) | Death | Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (born in 1683) | |
| December 8th, 1695 (December 08 1695) | Death | Barthelemy d Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (born in 1625) | |
